![]() What makes the album really interesting, though, is the underlying, sometimes obvious, sometimes nuanced, hidden meaning behind each individual track and the record as a whole. The main character, who has several songs throughout the album, is ‘the writer’, vocalized by band member Damon Albarn. Throughout the album, we meet various characters on the beach. ![]() People have gone to this island, painted over the plastic, and built a civilization on this pile of plastic, calling it ‘Plastic Beach’. ![]() The premise of Plastic Beach is quite simple on the outside, along the literal and basic first layer of meaning: There’s an island in the middle of the ocean that has been formed because of all of the plastic that we throw into the ocean. The collaborations on the album span from hip hop giants such as Snoop Dogg and Mos Def, to Swedish electronica band Little Dragon, to rock legend Lou Reed, to soul icon Bobby Womack, along with big ensemble bands such as The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and The National Orchestra for Arabic Music. The album was not the virtual band’s best selling or most critically acclaimed, but its experimental pop sound, combined with collaboration from a wide variety of artists makes it stand out as different from the rest of the band’s work. It has now been 6 years since Gorillaz released their third album, a venture into experimental cross-genre musical elements, titled ‘Plastic Beach’.
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